Goodreads asked LeAnna DeAngelo:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

LeAnna DeAngelo All of my life, I heard that I had a well-known, very respected great-great uncle who was a musician. About 10 years ago, I started investigating the life of Pietro Satriano, and found numerous newspaper articles about him, interviewed family and contacted historians. All the information was fascinating (a child prodigy, first performance in America at age 11, playing trumpet with an opera company on the east coast, divorced twice in the late 1800s). Media people ask, "Why did you write the book?" My response is always, "How could I not write a book about him?"

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